Disclaimer: i do not own the Gilmore girls but i do own the OC, and i do not own the dress...i want to but alas this is reality...which ive had trouble grasping lately

Hayden In Training

Education Frowns Upon Nudity.

"So then it is decided that there will be joint custody. She will spend the summer with Christoper along with Christmas, and July the 4th, and with Lorelai the school year, along with New years and Easter and on Thanksgiving we will all have dinner at either house. And she will have dinner with her Grandparents, both Gilmore and Hayden, once a month, and upon her 21st birthday she will receive her trust fund and on her 23rd birthday her birthright."

Huh? Who said that? Oh I remember this, that was Trix and this was when I was Four they were deciding who gets custody

"Trix! Honestly I don't see how you can find Lorelai's living arrangements suitable for a growing child! She would be much better off with Christoper!"

Good old Grandmother Francine always looking out for the little guy-err girl

" Because Francine, Christoper is only in his second year of Princeton, he is much too busy to be taking care of a child. While Lorelai already has a job, and the home she bought with her trust fund that she received last year, currently Christoper has his hand full with schooling and being with Rory in his spare time. When things calm down and he is ready to take over Straub's firm then we will discuss this again"

I don't think that meeting ever really happened, and if it did I wouldn't really now about it, I only heard this one because the vent from the study on the second floor goes to the game room on the third

"Now since that is settled we need to decide what last name to give the child"

Leave it to Emily to take care of anything

"Well that is obvious she is definitely taking the Hayden name! After all she is the future Hayden heiress,"

Francine looks appalled that they even needed to ask that

"Now wait a minute Francine we need to discuss this, being a Hayden is definitely not easy, there will be paparazzi banging down her door, and since she won't be in Hartford we won't be able to protect her, and can you imagine how many death threats and kidnapping attempts there will be when people find out that she is a Gilmore and a Hayden? I don't think I'll be comfortable with my Four year old Granddaughter being threatened with out a bodyguard near especially in some hick town where everybody knows everybody's business. Do you remember what it was like for Christoper, how many threats there were, and he had a body guard. We had to keep him moving from boarding school to boarding school so no one would ever know where he was unless they were family. So here is the solution she will keep her name, Lorelai Leigh Gilmore the third, and when she turns Eight-teen we will secretly change her name to Lorelai Leigh Hayden she will know but we will do it in the Hayden firm and keep it under wraps so that the media will not know, she will go by the name Rory Gilmore and then when it comes out, it comes out, end of discussion"


Well I guess I know where I get my rambling abilities I always thought it was from Mom but I guess I am more of a Hayden then I realize.

"Now onto the next pressing matter, why haven't my daughter and your son gotten married yet?"

I was wondering when this question would come up, Mom never really gave me a reason, why didn't I remember this night until now?

"Because Richard, Lorelai is holding on to the insane notion that she can raise this child by herself, and she says shes too young to be married, how proposturous is that? She's not to young to be pregnant, leave home, get a job, and have a child, but she's too young to get married, I swear that girls logic astounds me"

Leave it to Emily to have all the answers

" Well we all know how much of a lie that is, she just doesn't want to do something that she thinks shes being forced to do, or something that would make her come back to society, she claims to hate this 'world'"

That sounds like Mom alright

" Oh, let her have her way for now, eventually she'll come around, after all Rory is going to follow the plan, she's only four and she already knows how to speak with a vocabulary high above her average age ability, has shown much interest in literature, has memorized the periodic table, all the states, and her manners are spectacular for a girl her age"

Aww your making me blush

"Emily, why do you have that look on your face?"

My Grandmother, Francine, ever the curious one

"Just imaging Rory in her Debutant dress, she's going to look like a fine young lady"

Wait a second I'm FOUR and shes already planning my coming out dress?

"Now Emily, lets not get ahead of ourselves, twelve years is quite a bit off isn't it?"

Saved by the supreme court judges wife

"We have no idea how she will grow up looking, but she has good genes so there are probably no worries there"

...Or maybe not

" Now now ladies let's not plan her wedding before she's in grade school. You have plenty of time to think about that in a decade, now as for protection, whenever she is staying with Christopher or any of her Grandparents she should be accompanied by a body guard, I would feel much better if she had a body guard 24/7 but Lorelai would never allow it."

He's right about that too, there is no way in hell that Mom would let the Muffin Man guard me in Stars Hollow way too much abnormality as it is without my trusted body guard following me (im so evil, but you guys wont find out his name until later)

" She would scoff at the idea of a man protecting her and her daughter. Well if she wants to be independent, let her be independent, for now. But eventually she will need help, and it's not like she can keep the child from us, we are her family. Now keep your voices down, the child is asleep upstairs, and when Lorelai comes back from the hospital after getting her broken arm treated and finds a sleepy, irritable child she will blame us and be more stubborn in her decision to raise the child alone. Now, I'm curious how did she break her arm again?"

Trix- like me always thinks into the future

"Car accident, Rory was in the back seat, minor damage to the car, but Lorelai wasn't wearing a seat belt, we spent an hour on the phone making sure Christoper stayed at school and had to assure him that Rory was fine, then we called Straub and Francine and thats when they rushed over here, and when you woke up Trix"

Emily...still in control of the situation, but I remember that, Mom had that cast on for 3 months, she let me color all over it is smelly red, blue and purple marker, she went around smelling like a cherry, blueberry, grape smoothie for a couple weeks until the smell wore off

" Well as long as she's fine, now who wants tea?"

dreamdreamdreamdreamdreamdreamdreamdreamdreamdreamdreamdreamdream

White, maybe an off white, kind of a mix between tan and white. But that can't be right my dorm at Yale is peach, my room in Stars Hollow is yellow, my apartment room is blue, and my room at the mansion is purple, where the hell am I? Well I guess in order to find out I'll have to get up. Ok getting up on the count of three: one, two...two and a half...on second thought lets just think about where I am instead of getting up so last thing that came to mind was remembering Dean, mom kissing Luke, and Europe, then Logan came to find me and I interviewed him and then he left and I went to sleep, so then that means I am at the Life and Death brigade gathering, ok then...what was with that dream anyways? Can I even call it a dream if it actually happened, so then from now on I'll call it a dream back... ok so not that creative, but I haven't had any caffeine, I should jut find a way to have it directly implanted into my blood stream, at least that way it would be more easily transported, I would just need to carry around a bottle of pills instead of a thermos-

"It's bloody early but they sent me to wake you up, and they refuse to show me where the alcohol is so up you go"

"Good morning Finn"

"I trust I'm not interrupting an Epiphany"

"Just trying to figure out how to make coffee into a pill"

"Well, when you figure that out write down the formula so I make turn my beloved alcohol into pills as well"

"Will do Finn, how did they get you up?"

"Well, I was having a dream where I was surrounded by vodka and redheads, when those masochists decided it would be fun to tease me so they sent the every lovely rosemary to hold a flask under my nose then pull it away as i awoke...oh no I used a name didn't I?"

"Don't worry Finn, I promised not to use any names"

"Wonderful, say love, would you happen to have a sister? Because you look awfully familiar"

"Well Finn, that could be because I've met you before, and was in the car as it drove up here"

"Well that might be it but I don't think that is it, ah well it must be the lack of alcohol in me that is making me think weird thoughts"

"Yes Finn, I'm sure thats it, now are you just here to wake me up?"

"Well of course love, I'm much to hung over to do anything else, just be ready in 15 minutes, see you later love"

"Later Finn"

15 minutes later

I stepped out of my tent slowly, yesterday as I was leaving it, I almost tripped on a rock, I was staring so intently at the ground trying not to trip on anything I didn't notice a tall blonde right in front of me, and that is why I bumped into him, not because I tripped on a rock, or a twig or anything like that, I just didn't see him, what was he doing anyways standing in front of me like that, he should know not to test my patience without any coffee in me

"Well Ace, if you wanted me so bad, you could have just told me"

Stupid smirk, need coffee

"Wow Huntzberger, I didn't think your ego could get any bigger, watch out or this forest might start feeling a little bit cramped"

Still need coffee

"Awww Ace, thats not a nice thing to say, especially since I'm the only one here with coffee, ok then here is the deal, since you hurt my feelings I will forgive you if you kiss me"

Hmm pride, coffee, pride, coffee, pride, coffee, so hard to decide, need coffee but stubborn

"Ok how about this you give me the coffee and I'll owe you one"

coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee

"Owe me one what?"

COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE

" I'll owe you a kiss, now can you PLEASE give me the coffee?"

COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE

" Fine, but only because you said please, now hurry up and drink the coffee, so I can give you your dress"

I must REALLY need coffee, because I usually get what people are talking about

"Dress?"

Finally coffee, love coffee, must marry coffee...or at least guy who can make good coffee

"And a matching mask, it's sort of a masquerade thing"

He hands me a big box and a much smaller box

"Hurry up Ace, we don't have all day"

I stepped back into the tent and opened the bigger box and I liked what the big box had in it. It contained one of the most beautiful ball gown I had ever seen and that was saying something, because I see a lot of beautiful dresses. It was pure white, and the part covering her chest was black silk leading into the middle of her chest where it was secured by small, barely noticeable broach, the bodice was a bunch of black flowers in a vine leading down until it reached the waist of the dress where it was all white and just barely touching the floor. I then moved to open the smaller box and inside was a elegant, small masquerade mask the mask was pure white with small beads of black extending out to the ends and getting thicker as it reached the tips. I put the dress and mask on and readjust my hair so that you couldn't see the mask straps, well actually I just put out my hair down, as I was stepping out of the tent yet again only 10 minutes later I saw Logan sitting on a chair waiting patiently for me to get out, well I've never been one to keep a guy waiting so I cleared my throat to let him know I was there, but I could have gone on looking at him for a while longer...where did that come from? Anyways Logan looked me up and down and turned his head away, weird, he muttered something about an eye for dresses and nothing like he imagined he then started walking and I followed. I hate uncomfortable silences so I asked

"Hey Logan that coffee was really good, who made it?"

He looked at me for the first time since I walked out of the tent and said

"I did"

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As we walked toward the crowd of people, all in ball gowns, tuxes, and masks, holding flutes of champagne, I began to wonder how much courage these people had, testing their limits, surpassing their fears and doubts, its been a while since I've done that, I believe the last time I did was when I was traveling through Europe. That was a fun year. We had just caught up to the group and Finn had given Logan and I glasses, Colin said something about a grand assembly, but I was too busy trying to recall my European exploits to hear them, the words Inomnia Paratus rang through the air and everybody drank with the nearest person of the opposite gender to them, then a large gong sounded and everybody scurried off.

"And to think someone groups just go bowling"

I cant help but smile.

It was definitely something that you could dream about, people playing cricket in carriages while being held up by four guys, of human target practice, I spotted Logan talking to Finn, I walked over to them to try and find out what the 'big event' was, Finn had just handed the gun to Logan when I caught up with them, I looked at Logan and saw that he had a amused look on his face and being the curious person I am asked

"Whats got you all smiley?"

He put the gun to his eye level and glances at me quickly and says

"Just Finn being Finn"

Ah, in the limited time I've known the 3, I thought this would probably be a good time to just let it go

"So...nice shot"

This is me hoping he doesn't see through my lame stalling attempt

"Thanks and is it safe to assume small talk isn't your strong point"

This is me, cursing myself for sucking at my lame stalling attempt

"Not small talk just figuring out a way to word this"

This is me mentally patting my back for thinking that up so quickly

"Well word away"

This is me hating the fact I'm not thinking fast enough

"Although this is very spectacular, I doubt that this is the main event I heard so much about in my research, so will you tell me what the big event is?"

This is me congratulating myself for saying that so well

"Sorry Ace, you'll just have to wait until later to see"

This is me yelling at myself for letting him get away with that as he walks away after handing me the gun

This is me standing here like an idiot staring at the stop he occupied

This is me sick of thinking this is me

Big, very big, very very big, very hugely big.

That is a very big thing, what is that even? A platform? Ok I'll call it a platform, anyways

that is one big platform at least 7 or 8 stories high. What are they planning one doing with it, and why is it there are people standing on it why are they holding umbrella's? Why are they -Oh my god

"Stare at it to long and you'll lose your train of thought"

"Are they seriously going to do what I think their going to do?"

"That depends on what you think their going to do, for all I know you could be thinking that they are going to have tea while their up there"

"Jump, I think their going to jump"

"Well you answered your own question didn't you?"

"Well I hope this was planned out well or your going to have a lot explaining to do to the families of those 4"

"We plan all of our stunts out and 6"

"Pardon?"

"There are 6 people jumping"

"I see 4"

"I'm heading up, and a few of us figured Finn would make it this far"

" hmmm..."

It dawned on me what he was implying

"NO!"

"come on Ace it will be fun"

"Logan when someone tells me their going to jump off of a 7 story platform the first word that comes to mind Isn't 'fun'!"

"come on Rory, think about it this way it will give your story a little edge"

I just stared at him for a bit, did he honestly think i would do this? Did he seriously think I would go for it?

"Logan have you ever jumped off a 7 story platform in a pair of heels and a floor length dress? Well, I'm guessing its not easy!"

"Well you'll never know until you try"

I'm not sure what to call it exactly, but I think that I've initiated a staring contest, with blinking. OK then the first one to look away wins, if I look away first then I'll do the jump, and if he looks away first I get to watch the jump from land. Wait do contests work if the other person competing doesn't know its a contest? No matter.

"come one Ace you look like you need a little adventure"

"excuse me?"

"your just a little sheltered"

"Ok listen here Logan, I don't need you to protect me, or to worry about me. Now don't get me wrong, I'm grateful that you got me this opportunity, but I don't need you to contemplate my life and what its lacking"

"come on Ace its not like that, just come on do the jump, you wont regret it. People can live a hundred years without really living a minute, you climb up there with me its one less minute you haven't lived"

that was actually pretty motivating, not that I'm easily swayed, its true though. He looks genuine.

"Is it safe?"

"completely, there are people spotting you and even if something happens we have doctors who are alumni members of the LDB on standby"

"lets go"

He smiles at me

"lets go!"

I head toward the ladder, I almost stumbled because I stepped on a pebble, much to my vigilant attention when I started the day, Logan quickly balanced me by putting his hand on the small of my back, as we reached the ladder I put my hand on the cold metal, slowly I lifted myself up to the step and without warning had a slight flashback to my teenage years

"I'm warning you I am not a fan of ladders"

"they scare the crap out of me too"

climbing the ladder was easy enough, I didn't slip, or lose my balance but as I reached the top and looked down without knowing it the words flowed from my mouth

"high, we are very, very high"

He grabs an umbrella from the guy next to him

"I've been higher"

I bet you have

"I meant distance from the ground"

He smirks

"that too"

by now I'm standing next to him and Seth, a guy I met last night, I was writing down descriptions, I had dropped my pen and he picked it up and got it for me, told me not to worry and that the harass strap matched my dress. I stood in place with all the other jumpers, just staring at the ground.

"you can back out, you know, nobody's forcing you to do this

I took a brief glance at him, he was squinting from the sun, did I look nervous?

"I know that"

I grabbed the extra umbrella he was holding

"you trust me?"

I don't know you well enough to trust you

"you jump I jump jack"

the next moments came as a bit of a blur, maybe it was the adrenalin, maybe it was from him holding my hand, I'm not quite sure but all I remembered from this point was someone shouting 'Inomnia Paratus' Logan grabbing my hand and jumping off. The ground kept getting bigger and bigger, and we kept getting closer and closer to the finale, the landing was spectacular itself, the ground felt abnormal under my feet after falling for what felt like forever and fast, it took me a while to get used to it again. The words slipped from my lips almost as soon as my feet hit the ground.

"Once in a life time experience"

He's still holding my hand, but I'm still too shocked to notice

"Only if you want it to be"

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Champagne was soon handed out to us again, seriously how much champagne did they bring? Sorry need to keep my train of thought her, anyways I'm talking Logan, how did this happen, lets see? I WAS talking to Colin, Logan, Finn, and Stephanie about nothing in particular when Finn felt the urge to go through what I'm told is called a 'Finn naked phase' which I'm guessing is Finn's need to strip and streak, well anyways he shouted

"drink, be merry, because tomorrow we will all be back at school where exposure is frowned upon"

then he ran off towards the woods while taking off his clothes piece by piece shouting

"education frowns upon nudity!"

Stephanie and Colin both ran after him because they couldn't remember whose 'turn' it was, so thats why I'm standing here in disbelief with a nonchalant Logan

"so I take it this has happened before?"

"I've lost count"

"Hmmmm"

"So tell me Ace, why aren't you 'fond' of ladders?"

"What?"

"Well before the jump you said ' I'm not a fan of ladders' "

"Oh, um, I think it was my 17th birthday, a bunch of my friends decided it was high time for me to get a fake id, so when I did it was supposedly implied that I had to celebrate to they took me to a bar where they proceeded to get me so hammered that I forgot my real name, this is before i developed my fathers immunity to alcohol anyways I woke up the next morning with a hangover the size of Texas in my clothes from last night, so I got changed, took off the smudged make up, was going to go get some Advil when I went to my purse to see if I missed any calls, and I didn't have my cell phone in it, so I thought maybe it fell out of the purse, so I used the house phone to look for it, and I heard the ringing near by, so I went looking for it, I was about to give up when I realized it as coming from my window, so there it was my brand new cell phone was on the roof. So with my huge hangover I got a ladder and went to get it, and as I reached the top a bird flew by, like right in front of my face, and I lost my balance and fell, sprained my wrist, and broke my leg in 2 different places, and unfortunately I fell on my cell phone so I had to go out and buy a new one with my broken leg"

"Ouch"

"yeah so broken arm, and a sprained wrist, and my hangover still hurt more. But the pain killers helped"

"well thats a stupid reason to hate ladders"

"no its not I had to wear a cast for half a year"

"but it was the birds fault, if the bird hadn't come then you wouldn't have fallen, blame the bird"

"are you seriously questioning why I hate an inanimate object"

"Well, maybe if you didn't blame the inanimate object for something that wasn't its fault, I wouldn't have to"

"yeah well-

"Whats going on here!"

I turned to see a guy in a suit with a tacky tie

"A debate in which I would have won if you hadn't interrupted"

"What are you doing here?"

Oh Gawd a new guy, please don't let him be a jack ass, wait new guy? That means he doesn't know who I am, on the upside, he wont say my name out loud, on the downside I may have to.

"did you know you are trespassing on private property?"

no shit sherlock

"did you know you are trespassing on my land?"

What! Oh this guy is going down.

"Oh really so your Mr. Hayden?"

"that would be me"

"Well Mr. Hayden why don't we go talk over there where we wont be overheard"

"Ace what are you doing?"

I sent him a glare that clearly said shut up, and he did, he just snapped his mouth closed, but then I felt bad because he was just concerned

"trust me for a sec Huntzberger"

I could tell my fake father was getting impatient so I just walked to a more secluded part, and he followed, good boy.

"now Mr. Hayden, where were we?"

"I was about to alert the authorities that your trespassing"

"but sir, you gave us permission to be using the forest behind your house"

"no I didn't"

"yes you did, yesterday morning I faxed you a copy of our requests and you let us because your daughter is a friend of mine"

He's starting sweat

"m-my daughter?"

"you know Lorelai Hayden, your only child, she asked you weeks ago and we sent in the fax early yesterday and you responded mid afternoon"

I just smiled sweetly as he was sweating, serves him right jerk, you don't impersonate your boss.

"I'm sorry, I forgot"

"thats OK, these things happen"

I can hear the LDB members gossiping and whispering around me, probably wondering what were talking about.

"Well if thats all I'll be off then to do my rou- to um the mansion"

"I was just wondering something, how long are you going to pretend that your Christoper Hayden?"

"What do you mean?"

thats right pull on that tie, classic sign of nervous

"Well your obviously not him"

"I am!"

"Hmm, did you know that Lorelai comes home every summer?"

"Of course I mean shes m-my d-daughter"

"Well you see every time she comes home, she raids her fathers closet and takes all his that are too small, or just ugly and donates them to Goodwill, did you know that?"

"yes"

"Well Mr. Tacky tie where did you get that tie?"

"While I was shopping last week"

Ha, my dad never sets foot in a mall, hes too scared I might go on a shopping spree and he'll have to carry all my bags

"Hmm, Christoper Hayden has a personal shopper he hasn't set foot in a mall since his daughter discovered shopping"

"What I meant to say was my personal shopper went shopping last week"

"do you want to know why I know your not Christoper Hayden?"

He didn't answer but he was figiting

"because I know him personally, and he does not speak like you, or look like you in and way shape or form"

I win

"Is there a problem here?"

again? Who is it this time a maid pretending to be my mother?

"I'm waiting for answer"

I turned around and was shocked to see someone who I hadn't seen since last year

"little miss? What are you doing here?"

"Oh nothing in particular just felt like stopping by with some friends"

He looks amused

"In formal wear?"

think think think

"Well I'd actually rather not discuss it in front of a guy who will gossip about it to anyone he can"

I subtlety looked at the tacky tie guy

"Ah Joe, why don't you go wait in my office for a little talk"

He looks nervous, serves him right

"are you always this intimidating to the employees?"

"not really but hes new, and a bit of a jerk, I don't really have a reason to fire him, I'm just waiting for him to screw up"

"Well...good luck with that"

"so you never answered my question, what brings you here little miss?"

"my history class is suppose to reenact a party that King Edward the IV attended but no one had the space and I did so I thought why not and here we are"

"well if its for school"

"but of course"

It's not fibbing, because the paper is part of the school

"well since, your here, you should probably go see your father"

Shameless people eavesdropping on a private conversation, you'd think with all the etiquette classes they took they would mind their manners

"He knows I'm here?"

"no, but he'll probably want to see you since you are here anyways, now scoot"

"I'm going I'm going"

Which way is the house?

"Umm Leo?"

"yes Rory"

"Which way is the house?"

He gives me a look, I just shrug he points to a tall thick tree

"just go straight that way, and don't get lost again"

I cant believe hes bringing that up

"It was one time, and I was 6"

Oh right, go see dad

"don't dawdle"

"I hear you, I hear you"

I take a brief glance at Logan and friends. Finn looked like a statue putting his pants on, Colin looks like a ghost, Stephanie looks confused, and Logan, well I couldn't read Logan's face, but his eyes were wide. Yup definitely the reaction I expected. And then I started walking towards the big tree, running my hand across the bark as I walked past it with Theo trailing closely behind, I knew I probably couldn't get away with that, the whole 'your father would like to see you' in front of all these people and I was right, I heard someone ask loudly

"Whose her father?"

I pretended not to hear and continued walking, but Leo, not knowing that I wanted it a secret turned around and said just as loudly, if not more

"Christoper Hayden"

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